Besides Chang Yuchun and Xu Da, Aquamarine was the most powerful god of war in the Ming Dynasty.
Going north to break the Yuan Dynasty, he captured more than 70,000 people in World War I, and captured more than 6,543.8+0.5 million horses, sheep and cattle, which is a veritable "Daming Wei Qing".
He and Zhu Yuanzhang are still relatives and friends. They are the uncles of Prince Zhu Biao, and their daughter married Chun Zhu, the son of Zhu Yuanzhang.
However, aquamarine, who has repeatedly made meritorious military service and is a relative of the country, was arrested and imprisoned because of a complaint from a small Royal Guards. After three days in prison, he was "uprooted" and destroyed three families.
"Stripping the real grass" is a cruel death sentence. Peel off the skin completely, make a bag, fill it with straw, and then hang it for public display.
What did aquamarine do?
Did he die unjustly?
To answer this question, we need to start with the death of aquamarine.
The death of aquamarine is a well-designed unjust case.
1393, aquamarine was reported by the Royal Guards Jiang Sui, and Zhu Yuanzhang immediately put it in prison.
At that time, aquamarine was Liang Gong, but after three days in prison, Zhu Yuanzhang sentenced him to "stripping grass" and destroyed three companies, involving tens of thousands of people. History is called "Lan Yu case".
Is aquamarine really rebellious?
Judging from the existing historical data, this may be a well-designed unjust case.
In Ming History, Ming Taizu Record and other historical materials, the record of Aquamarine's death is not detailed, and there is only one result.
However, there is a book that records the whole story in detail.
This book is a record of rebellion.
This is a book that Zhu Yuanzhang specially ordered people to record the whole story of the case, including all confessions, and made it public after the death of Aquamarine.
It stands to reason that this book should be conclusive evidence of Aquamarine's rebellion.
However, I think this book just proves the innocence of aquamarine.
There are many confessions in the record of rebellion, and every sentence refers to the rebellion of aquamarine. It seems that everyone involved has committed a heinous crime.
But on the whole, the confession is inconsistent, contrary to historical facts and full of doubts.
The book "The Record of Rebellion" contains the confessions of nearly 10,000 people, from the generals and princes to the minions of traffickers, all pointing to the principal criminals headed by aquamarine.
According to this logic, the confession of the principal offender should echo them and form an important closed loop, thus clearly convicting Aquamarine.
According to the records of the Ming Dynasty, the second man, Hou Cao Zhen of Jingchuan, confessed the crime.
However, I rummaged through the whole book, but I couldn't find the confessions of Aquamarine and Cao Zhen, and several other people headed by them basically didn't see the confessions.
There are only two reasons for not confessing:
I think there is a high probability that these protagonists have not confessed.
After three days in prison, aquamarine could not confess immediately, but he was directly executed by Zhu Yuanzhang.
According to the convention, this kind of rebellion case involving a wide range involves important royalty, and the truth must be thoroughly investigated before killing people.
The aquamarine case involves tens of thousands of people. Even if everyone only interrogates once and compares the confessions one by one, it will take at least half a month to find out the truth.
Zhu Yuanzhang was so anxious that he seemed to hint to everyone: I killed aquamarine, and this was a case of rebellion. There is no doubt that you should take good care of those who continue to hear cases in the future!
Doubt 2: It's ridiculous to plan a rebellion banquet.
In The Record of Rebellion, Aquamarine planned the rebellion from the 10th day of the first month to the 8th day of February in the 26th year of Hongwu. At this time, he came back from the war in the north, arranged banquets in succession in the mansion, but actually planned a rebellion.
At that time, there were princes and generals from all walks of life, many local officials who visited Liang Gong's residence, and even some ordinary vendors, servants and even some street gangsters.
They were all amused by aquamarine.
In the Record of Rebellion, Aquamarine discussed the details of rebellion at the dinner table with great interest: "I often go to Guo Lianggong's house to discuss rebellion" and "I go back to the official residence to discuss rebellion" ...
According to historical records, thousands of people visited aquamarine this month, and many people went there several times.
And this is the time when Aquamarine planned the rebellion.
This is ridiculous.
Aquamarine is heavily armed, even if you want to rebel, it is impossible to choose such a densely populated place, and Zhu Yuanzhang can't have any reaction to it.
Aquamarine is brave and resourceful, not a fool. How can it be so blatant?
The time to plan the rebellion is a very important content in the rebellion case.
In the end, she was convicted, and the time when she planned to lead troops abroad was 26 years in Hongwu, but she began to plan rebellion many times: 2 1 year in Hongwu and 23 years in Hongwu. ...
At these time points, confessions of different people.
The timing of planning the rebellion is inconsistent, which seems to be no big deal. But Hongwu 2 1 year is a very special time point.
This year, Aquamarine led 100,000 troops to break the Yuan Dynasty in the north and made the greatest contribution in his life.
But some people say that at this time, he wrote to people thousands of miles away to discuss rebellion.
You are aquamarine, will you write to people thousands of miles away to rebel at the critical moment of fighting meritorious service?
The above three doubts are the biggest doubts in the record of rebellion. In addition, similar and consistent confessions are also recognized as serious injuries.
Judging from whether she rebelled or not, aquamarine's death was undoubtedly wrong.
However, combined with what Aquamarine did, I think there is nothing wrong with his death.
Aquamarine's rebellion is full of doubts. Why do I think he died unjustly?
Because for so many years, if Zhu Yuanzhang had not been patient everywhere, he would have died many times.
In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang carried out the policy of marriage with heroes in order to appease heroes and consolidate the power of the Zhu family.
At that time, of Zhu Yuanzhang's 16 daughters, 8 were married to the descendants of the founding generals, and the wives of a series of generals such as Xu Da, Chang Yuchun and Deng Yu were also married to Zhu Yuanzhang's son.
In this way, the Zhujiajian family and the hero family formed a solid one-on-one in-laws relationship, and Zhu Yuanzhang was the master of this in-laws relationship.
However, aquamarine destroyed Zhu Yuanzhang's plan.
He cultivated his own clique under this in-laws relationship.
Aquamarine is Chang Yuchun's wife and brother, and also a relative of Ye Sheng, the founding military commander. Aquamarine also encouraged Chang Yuchun's son Chang Mao to marry the daughter of another founding father, Sheng Feng. That's not all. Aquamarine continues to plan to expand this marriage circle.
Under the operation of Aquamarine, the military commanders' families in control of the military power formed a circle with the Chang family as the core and the Lan family as the small core.
Everyone in the circle is an important general of Daming. If they rebel, Daming will be in danger.
Aquamarine's behavior, one is to form a party for selfish ends, and the other is to cultivate the power of rebellion.
Since ancient times, the most taboo for heroes is to establish high prestige, but Aquamarine ignores it, and desperately expands its power, which is undoubtedly pushing itself to death.
Aquamarine has made great military achievements, but her arrogance is also very arrogant.
After the death of Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, they became important generals of Daming, who made great achievements and were closely related to their relatives and the country. Aquamarine repeatedly challenged Zhu Yuanzhang's bottom line:
Zhu Yuanzhang liked aquamarine very much, and he chose to forgive many times.
However, there are some things, but one can be two cannot be three.
In a rage, Zhu Yuanzhang directly changed the original title of "Liang Guogong" to "Liang Guogong" and reminded him to reflect on himself at all times on the iron ticket.
However, instead of introspection, aquamarine has gone too far.
He carved dragons on all kinds of clothes at home and used all kinds of gold casting utensils, which greatly expanded the scale of domestic slaves and horse workshops, almost reaching the level of private farming of military forces.
By the sofa, how can others sleep soundly?
In this move, aquamarine clearly regarded himself as a "little emperor", with his own military forces and cronies, and also used the jewelry of the son of heaven without authorization.
I'm afraid I can't tolerate such a ruthless emperor as Zhu Yuanzhang.
In addition to challenging the imperial power in personal enjoyment, Aquamarine often intervened in local government affairs with a group of military commanders.
Those military commanders who founded the country in the Ming Dynasty did make outstanding contributions when they fought for the world. But in Zhu Yuanzhang's later years, the country was basically stable, and it needed not only force, but also the strategy of governing the country.
However, military commanders are not good at governing the country.
According to Zhu Yuanzhang's plan, when the world is at peace, military commanders will gradually retreat behind the scenes. At the same time, we beat the military commanders many times to make them read more history books and strive to be all-rounders in civil and military affairs.
But aquamarine broke Zhu Yuanzhang's plan.
Under the leadership of Aquamarine, the military commanders group headed by Aquamarine intervened in local government affairs, and by virtue of its position, local officials were afraid to move. It is common to enrich oneself and oppress the people.
In the worst case, they have to intervene in the government-run salt industry, which is equivalent to moving the Zhujiajian cake.
Zhu Yuanzhang was furious when he learned about it, but because all the people involved were heroes, it was not easy to attack them directly, but they just confiscated their money and salt.
At this time, aquamarine and others have become the cancer of the stable development of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't pursue it for military merits. If Aquamarine didn't learn from it, it was doomed to perish.
These are the reasons why I think Aquamarine died unjustly.
As a generation of god of war, aquamarine deserves respect.
He is so clever that he can even see Judy's anti-intention in front of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao.
But his character is his weakness.
He is arrogant. He believes that with his military achievements and status, no one can easily shake himself.
He just forgot.
This world, after all, is Zhu Yuanzhang's world.
After the death of Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Yuanzhang completely stopped trusting him and began to eradicate this cancer, trying to leave a peaceful country for future generations.
From this perspective, even if Aquamarine doesn't rebel, he will die very unjustly. After all, private owners Yuan Fei, Brown Soldiers, private dragons, interference in government affairs, interference in salt introduction ... whatever it is, it is enough to sentence Aquamarine to death.
Previously, Zhu Yuanzhang only trusted him and thought that Prince Zhu Biao could control him, so he was saved.
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